page_title: Sumy
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Sumy / Sports
caption_attribution_description: Cтадион Юбилейный 2008год
context_page_description: Sumy is a city in north-eastern Ukraine, and the capital of Sumy Oblast. Sumy also serves as the administrative center of Sumy Raion of Sumy oblast. Sumy is administratively incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. As of 2019 its population is estimated at 265,140.
context_section_description: The field hockey club Sumchanka is 12 times a champion of Ukraine and a champion of Europe.
  Sumy is home to the Ukrainian First League football team FC Sumy.
  The Ukrainian Premier League football club FC Kharkiv were leasing the city's state-of-the-art Yuvileiny Stadium.
  The Yuvileiny Stadium, formerly known as Spartak, was planned to be renovated just before dissolution of the Soviet Union and in 1989 was demolished to be built anew. It was not until 1998 when the actual construction was resumed and finally finished in 2002.
caption: Yuvileiny Stadium
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